Esteban Servellón
Esteban Servellón | |
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Born | Esteban Servellón Torres 16 October 1921 |
Died | 12 August 2003 | (aged 81)
Nationality | Salvadoran |
Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, pedagogue |
Esteban Servellón Torres (16 October 1921 – 12 August 2003) was a Salvadoran musician, composer, and pedagogue. He composed, among other works, a Requiem Mass, a sonata for guitar, and several serenades and quartets.
Early life and career
The son of Pedro Servellón and Lucía Torres,
Later life and career
In 1952, Servellón received a government scholarship to study composition and conducting at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, where he remained for four years. In the same year, he created the ballet Rina. In 1956, he returned to El Salvador where he assumed the position of director of the National Conservatory of Music. By 1960, he was the Assistant Director of the Salvadoran Army Symphony Orchestra (Orquesta Sinfónica del Ejército de El Salvador).[3] Renamed the El Salvador Symphony Orchestra (Orquesta Sinfónica de El Salvador; OSES) in 1960,[4] Servellón went on to become its conductor.[5]
In 1973, he traveled to the United States where he lived for three years. In 1976, he moved to
References
- ^ Miranda, Hernany (1982). Semblanzas de salvadoreños destacados (in Spanish). San Salvador: National government publication.
- ISBN 9789992379677.
- ^ Wilgus, Alva Curtis (1960). Papers Delivered at the Annual Conference on the Caribbean. University of Florida Press. p. 234.
- ^ González, Óscar (2 November 2012). "90 años de sinfonías". La Prensa Gráfica (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 June 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- ^ Apel 1969, p. 287.
- ^ Cultura de Guatemala (in Spanish). Universidad Rafael Landívar. 1998. p. 81.
- ^ "Réquiem por Esteban Servellón". El Diario de Hoy, El Salvador. 13 August 2003. Archived from the original on 11 June 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
Bibliography
- Apel, Willi (1969). Harvard Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-674-37501-7.